As the fourth business school to join The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management in 1968, Simon shares the University of Rochester's distinctive heritage and commitment to promoting diversity. Bolstered by foundational community and University leaders, such as abolitionist Frederick Douglass, women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, and corporate leader and philanthropist Joseph C. Wilson, as well as numerous path-breaking scholars—we actively to seek out and include persons from diverse backgrounds and origins who, carry with them their own valued and important perspectives.